Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/06/2021 - 08/07/2021
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
SFJAZZ Center
Category(ies)
- ArtsEarth Partner
- Music
- Broadcast
- Culture
- International
- Jazz
- Online
- Premiere
- Series
- Vocal
- Women
- World
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- PREMIERE: FRI, AUG 6 • 5:00 PM, PT (8:00 PM, ET)
- ENCORE: SAT, AUG 7 • 10:00 AM, PT (1:00 PM, ET)
An Ethio-American singer, guitarist, Bay Area resident, and TED Senior Fellow, Meklit is an SFJAZZ favorite who writes music steeped in traditional Ethiopian rhythms blended with her singer-songwriter’s poetic core. For this performance filmed in April 2018, she performed material from her Six Degrees album When The People Move, the Music Moves Too — a series of songs inspired by Ethio-jazz giant Mulatu Astatke.
Meklit became a sensation with the release of her 2010 debut On A Day Like This, an enchanting album featuring her delicately luminous original songs and traditional Amharic melodies. The album received rave reviews and featured coverage on PBS, National Geographic and NPR, and the singer has been on a meteoric rise ever since, spreading her distinctive brand of magic on numerous national and international tours, including numerous trips to her native Ethiopia.